Ryan Famuliner

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• A report on the procession for Columbia soldier Sterling Wyatt, whose body was returned home today.
• NOAA predicts the hot, dry weather will linger in the fall.
• Mark Twain National Forest expects above average fire damage this year.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Details on the 24th heat-related death in Missouri since June
• Hear from an author who wants the rights to his book back from the University of Missouri Press
• A Missouri judge has terminated the parental rights of a Guatemalan woman who was contesting her son's 2008 adoption by a Carthage, Mo. couple.

The backlash continues over the so-called “new model” for the University of Missouri Press. one of the Press’ authors wrote a letter to UM System President Tim Wolfe, who closed the old press as a cost-cutting measure.

Author Don Spivey notified Wolfe of his desire to remove his biography of baseball legend Satchel Paige from the University of Missouri Press. It was published in May, and Spivey’s worried about the future of his book.

Updated 1:45pm with comments from Provost Brian Foster and new Press Director Speer Morgan

The University of Missouri System announced in May it would be eliminating the University of Missouri Press, and that process officially started July 1st. Today, the University of Missouri-Columbia campus issued the press release below, announcing a new model to serve similar goals of the ill-fated Press.

Regional News coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Governor Nixon vetoes 10 bills - including a controversial one involving insurance coverage for contraception
• Two Columbia soldiers have died in the last 5 days
• The city of Columbia is proposing major changes to benefits for future city employees

Two Columbia military members have died in the last five days.

Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon was busy Thursday, making decisions on 22 bills the legislature put on his desk.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Governor Nixon signing legislation aiming to protect senior citizens and the disabled from financial exploitation
• Rep. Vicky Hartzler weighs in on the vote to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act
• Major changes to the process farmers use to apply for low interest loans during a drought
• Research at Washington University could help diagnose early onset Alzheimer's Disease more than a decade before it occurs.